Meloe (Eurymeloe) servulus Bates, 1875
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Meloe (Eurymeloe) servulus Bates, 1875 |
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Meloe (Eurymeloe) servulus Bates, 1875
New records. Kashmir: 3 exx., Sind Valley , 2000–2800 m, 2/ 5.v.1929, Nederlandische Karakorum-Expeditie J. A. Sillem, det. F. Borchmann ( HNHM, ZMAN) .
Distribution. Species recorded from Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal (Bologna, 2008), and from Indian Kashmir ( Borchmann, 1935; Axentjev, 1987).
Remarks. This species is poorly known. It is similar to M. (E.) brevicollis Panzer, 1792 , widely distributed in the Palearctic region. It differs by its shiny black color, smaller size, finer punctures, less perliform antennomeres ( Figure 11a View Figure 11 ), slightly less reniform and more rounded pronotum ( Figure 11b View Figure 11 ) with a depression on each side of disk, setose tergites. Tegmen in ventral view as in Figure 11c View Figure 11 ; tegmen and aedeagus in lateral view as in Figure 11d View Figure 11 .
Meloe (Eurymeloe) transversicollis Fairmaire, 1891
New records. Kashmir: Holotype, Kashmir ( MNHN).
Distribution. Described and recorded only from Kashmir (Bologna, 2008), and generically from “Himalaya” ( Anand, 1989).
Remarks. The assignment to the subgenus Eurymeloe was confirmed after the study of the holotype, housed at MHNHP (the photo is placed on the museum website).
Meloe (Eurymeloe) punjabensis Kaszab, 1958
Distribution. Endemic to Pakistan, but erroneously considered as an Indian species and not reported by Bologna (2008). The species was described from “ Punjab, Murrée Hills, Thobba”. Actually, Murree (or Murri) is a locality of the Pakistan Punjab, a few km north of Rawalpindi and close to the Indian Kashmir border.
Meloe (Lampromeloe) variegatus variegatus Donovan, 1793
Distribution. Palearctic polytypic species, widely distributed from the Iberian Peninsula to N China, through northwestern Africa, western and central Asia, including Kashmir (Bologna, 2008).
Meloe (Meloegonius) rufiventris himalaycus Kaszab, 1978
New records. Kashmir: 1 ex., Sind Valley, Gandkakar Mt. , 3200 m, 4.iv.1929 ( MSNM) .
Distribution. This species is widely distributed from central Europe and Central Asia to China, with isolated populations in northern Africa (Bologna, 2008). This subspecies is endemic to Kashmir (described from India: Srinagar and Pahalgam) ( Kaszab, 1978).
Remarks. This subspecies was erroneously synonymized with Meloe (Meloegonius) cicatricosus Leach, 1815 by Axentjev (1987).
Meloe (Meloe) proscarabaeus Linnaeus, 1758 s.l.
Distribution. Palearctic species, widely distributed from the Iberian Peninsula to Japan and at least to northern China, through northern Africa, western and central Asia (Bologna, 2008). Recorded from Kashmir and Himalaya ( Anand, 1978), but these citations are doubtful. Its presence in Tibet ( subsp. sericeorugosus Axentjev, 1987 ) also needs confirmation.
Remarks. We suspect that the above citations of proscarabaeus could actually refer to M. semicoriaceus , a similar species of the same lineage.
M. proscarabaeus is a highly variable species with very distinct populations in western and eastern Europe, in Anatolia and the Caucasus, and in central Asia, a few of which are described as distinct species or subspecies (see Baudi, 1878a, 1878b; Kaszab 1973).
Meloe (Meloe) semicoriaceus Fairmaire, 1891
New records. Kashmir: holotype meli, Kashmir ( MNHN); 2 exx., Sind Valley , Gund , 2080 m, 9.iv.1929 ( MSNM) .
Distribution. This species was described from Kashmir and recorded from this region also by Anand (1989). It was also reported from Iran, but this record is doubtful (Bologna, 2008).
Remarks. This species is closely related to M. proscarabaeus . We examined photos of a Meloe (Meloe) from Kashmir (Srinagar) which could be referred to M. semicoriaceus , but without the examination of the specimens we prefer to not consider them.
Meloe (Meloe) violaceus Marsham, 1802
Distribution. Palearctic species, widely distributed from the Iberian Peninsula to northern China and Tibet, through western and central Asia, with doubtful records from Afghanistan and isolated relic populations in Maghreb. Recorded also from Kashmir and Himalaya ( Anand, 1978; Bologna, 2008) but these citations could refer to another species.
Meloe (Meloe) cfr. lobatus Gebler, 1832
New records. Pakistan: 1 ex, Kaghan , vi.1991 S. Prespl ( CB) .
Remarks. The single specimen examined is a female and consequently the identification is uncertain. Among the Asiatic species of the nominotypical subgenus, one group (the lobatus group) includes about 15 species in which the pronotum is much longer than wide, distinctly sinuate basolaterally, and the middle male antennomeres are greatly widened. No species from this group have been recorded from Pakistan and the closest localities are in northwestern India (Himanchal Pradesh), Nepal, and Tibet. The specimen from Kaghan probably belongs to a new species of this group, which is under revision (Bologna et al., in preparation), especially because of the shape of the pronotum and its punctuation.
3.2. Additional taxonomic remarks
Bologna (2008) erroneously recorded Cerocoma (Mesocerocoma) latreillei sterbai Mařan, 1944 from Pakistan (as C. latreillei schah Kaszab, 1968 , which is a synonym). This was based on the examination of specimens from Iranian Baluchistan, but actually this species was never collected in the Pakistan territory, but only in Iraq and Iran (Turco and Bologna, 2011) and specifically the subsp. sterbai only in Iran.
In the same catalogue (Bologna, 2008) Glasunovia sillemi Borchmann, 1935 is recorded from Afghanistan and Kashmir. Actually, the locality cited as Karakorum and considered to be in Kashmir is now in the Chinese Xizang, close to the northern Kashmir border. The presence of this species also in Kashmir is probable.
We examined at ZMAN the holotype male of G. sillemi , which has the following labels: “ between Sanju Bazar and Sugot-Karaul; 1800–3600 m; 19/ 31.v.1930; Nederlandische Karakorum-Expeditie J.A. Sillem; Glasunovia Sillemi n.sp.; Type Glasunovia sillemi Borchm. 1932 ”. The species was never studied after its description and we present here new taxonomic data. The holotype is 10.8 mm long and attains a maximal width of 3 mm on the posterior third of elytra. Genitalia and last urite are mounted on a separate label. Male genitalia and spiculum gastrale are represented respectively in Figures 12a and 12b View Figure 12 ; the shape of parameres is characteristic in lateral view with a small pointed expansion at apex directed inward. The visible ventrites II and III ( Figure 12c View Figure 12 ) have a medially depressed densely setose sensorial area; these sclerites are totally ( II) or partially ( III) black; IV is dark on the basal portion and the remaining surface of the ventrites is orange. Tarsomeres are slender, but II distinctly shorter than III. Antennomeres slender .
Anand (1989) recorded Sybaris kashmirensis Saha, 1979 and S. mohami Saha, 1979 from Kashmir, but both
BOLOGNA et al. / Turk J Zool taxa were not described by Saha (1979) and actually represent nomina nuda, possibly representing variations of S. praeustus (Redtenbacher, 1842) .
3.3. Checklist of Meloidae of Pakistan and Kashmir
The species now known from Pakistan and Kashmir are listed below with their chorotypes (see the following paragraph for details). Four species are excluded from this list and from the zoogeographic analysis because of uncertain identification ( Mylabris cfr. cernyi , M. quadripunctata , Hycleus horai , H. jacquemonti ).
Eletica (Meteletica) testacea Oriental
Horia fabriciana Paleotropical
Nemognathiane, Nemognathini
Stenoria osellai Endemic (Turanian)
Zonitis (Zonitis) afghanica Afghanian
Zonitis (Zonitis) nigripectus Endemic (Turanian)
Zonitoschema melanarthra Indian
Zonitoschema straminea Northern Indian
Lytta (Lytta) antennalis Himalayan
Lytta (Lytta) flavipennis Southern Himalayan
Lytta (Lytta) kashmirensis Endemic (Tibetan)
Lytta (Asiolytta) limbata Himalayan
Lytta (Asiolytta) discipennis Endemic (Centralasiatic)
Lytta (Eolytta) flavoangulata Western Himalayan
Lytta (Mesolytta) vrendenburgi Afghanian
Lydomorphus (Lydomorphus) tenuicollis Northeastern
African-Sindian L ydomorphus (Lydomorphus)
angusticollis Sahelo-Sindian Lydomorphus
Sybaris praeustus Northwestern Indian
Sybaris testaceus Northern Indian
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